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    Authorised the Chief Executive after consultation with the Leader of the Council, to make appropriate representations to the Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire SHA  and to copy the letter to other interested parties.

(The Chairman announced that he proposed to admit the following item in accordance with Section 100 (4) (b) of the Local Government Act 1972 given the need for the Council to respond to a proposal for the configuration of the PCT’s  by 15th October 2005.)

By way of a report by the Chief Executive (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) the Cabinet were acquainted with arrangements for the proposed development of options by the Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Strategic Health Authority (SHA) for consultation on the future configuration of Primary Care Trusts (PCTs).

Whereupon it was

RESOLVED

  that the Chief Executive, in conjunction with the Leader of the Council, be authorised to make appropriate representations to the Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire SHA  for the inclusion in the forthcoming round of consultation of the option to retain the existing Huntingdonshire PCT in any future reconfiguration of Primary Care Trusts in the Eastern Region.